US Congress House Joint Resolution 117 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on September 7 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-09-07 - Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Condemning the violence and domestic terrorist attack that took place during events between August 11 and August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, recognizing the first responders who lost their lives while monitoring the events, offering deepest condolences to the families and friends of those individuals who were killed and deepest sympathies and support to those individuals who were injured in the attack, expressing support for the Charlottesville community, rejecting White nationalists, White supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups, and urging the President and the President's Cabinet to use all available resources to address the threats posed by those groups. This joint resolution condemns the racist violence and domestic terror attack in Charlottesville, Virginia, and rejects white nationalism, white supremacy, and neo-Nazism sentiments as antithetical to U.S. values. Congress offers condolences to the families of those who died in Charlottesville and sympathy and support for those injured, and expresses support to the Charlottesville community. Congress urges the President and the Administration to speak out against hate groups and use all available resources to address the growing prevalence of domestic hate groups.

Condemning the violence and domestic terrorist attack that took place during events between August 11 and August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, recognizing the first responders who lost their lives while monitoring the events, offering deepest condolences to the families and friends of those individuals who were killed and deepest sympathies and support to those individuals who were injured in the attack, expressing support for the Charlottesville community, rejecting White nationalists, White supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups, and urging the President and the President's Cabinet to use all available resources to address the threats posed by those groups.

Rep. Thomas Garrett [R-VA]	Rep. Gerald Connolly [D-VA]	Rep. Barbara Comstock [R-VA]	Rep. Don Beyer [D-VA]
Rep. Morgan Griffith [R-VA]	Rep. Robert Scott [D-VA]	Rep. Dave Brat [R-VA]	Rep. Donald McEachin [D-VA]
Rep. Scott Taylor [R-VA]	Rep. Bob Goodlatte [R-VA]	Rep. Robert Wittman [R-VA]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-09-07	House	Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
2017-09-07	House	Introduced in House

SJR49 (Same As) 2017-09-14 - Became Public Law No: 115-58. (TXT | PDF)

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-joint-resolution/117/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hjres117/BILLS-115hjres117ih.pdf